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A Zero Nonsense Course about the Duty of Frienship by Schizofennec
You give a friend in pain what they need. Not what you want, not what they want. That doesn't matter. What matters is they are in pain and they need help. You give them the help they need. Usually it goes like this, you talk about the pain. It turns into talk about other things. You kept them walking, and you were there walking with them.
But sometimes you have a terrible path to take.
Sometimes you have to do something which makes you seem like a monster to them. So be it. You help your friend, you do what you need to do. Afterwards your friend is safe, alive, and well. You can both live in peace so long as you work safely with your new title, and gauge it well, however much you don't want it. You saved your friend, and that's what matters, even if they don't know it
I don't care what ANYBODY thinks of me. I love EVERYTHING, and I will be whatever I have to be. The rest is up to everybody else.
I just told my best friend I almost fell into a ball in the floor, laughing and crying uncontrollably. She didn't falter. She gave me what I needed; in this case, talking a bit about it and moving on into other conversation. I have no doubt she's horribly worried hearing all these things about me, but the fact I don't have to see that from her is one less thing driving me closer to that ball of insanity, but she doesn't just keep me from getting closer, she altogether walks me away from it.
Her and I have gone through countless things together and have been there for others and tried to be there for others as well the whole way. We have tried our best to fulfill our duties as friends to ourselves and others. We don't always succeed. Sometimes we don't do it quite right. But the majority of the time something slips up it's not necessarily truly our fault.
Not enough people know what commitment it is friends make to each other. If more people realize what it is they are supposed to do for their friends, we may finally never have to make that sacrifice of becoming their monster. We may finally live in peace knowing our friends will always be there, even though they really always are.
It's not even the fault of the people who don't realize what duty friendship has. I couldn't really say who is to blame for that more than all of us, as a whole, as a collective society.
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